Sorry guys, I went away for two weeks and had a big BMX meet but I really wanted to write this one good! Ok, here it is!
Disclaimer: No darling reader, I am not Tamora Pierce, but I worship her and her writing (in case you hadn't guessed already)
PS. I love all my reviewers, but I cant find your names cause this website hates me!
Two hours later, these facts had been established.
I was a hazard, but had blackmailed Alanna into letting me out.
Tamora Pierce is either the goddess who created this dimension, or simply the messenger who writes down all the important history of Tortall and the god-touched to distribute to parallel worlds.
Kel was DEFINITELY in love with Dom, but refused to talk on the matter.
Numair's truth spell has either gone wrong, or the crazy chick was actually from another world.
"Now that that has been established, can you please get me some other clothes? I will start my investigations at once!" I announced smirking triumphantly at my gathered audience, consisting of Alanna, Kel, Raoul, Numair, Daine, and Buri. Neal had been sent from the room after I had recited some of the lines of poetry from his page years (causing a reaction similar to spontaneous combustion).
"What investigations?" Buri asked suspiciously. Kel was quiet. Hmm strange, she must have realised that I know the most about her…
"Well, the ones I need to find out about certain people for certain lady knights so they can ask them to escort her to your wedding of course!" I grinned so big, I seriously must have been the snapshot image of little kid who'd been on skittles for a week. Silence met my announcement. As one, all the people in the room turned slowly towards Kel. Damn, was she gonna kill me.
"And who would that be?" Raoul asked, a dangerous edge coming into his voice.
"Nobody." Good for you Kel, a girls automatic reaction is to deny everything.
I shoved my way in front of her and glared at Raoul.
"Don't you bother Kel now, she had nothing to do with it. It's just one of the things that I know, and I am going out to figure out something I don't know." NTS, smiling at hostile crowd isn't going to make them like you more. New plan.
"Well, can you at least get me another pair of clothes? I look like a…( insert pathetic look at myself here) sniff sniff… wahhhhhahhhhahhh" My sobbing and wails caused everyone to jump to attention, and Numair and Roaul (being blind to the ways of women) practically bolted off to find me some more 'inconspicuous' clothing.
"Wow, you guys have them trained up wayyy better than my boyfriend." The women all laughed, I'd broken the ice!
"Well, Roaul isn't used to me crying, so he can't handle the sound! He thinks that if he does whatever it is fast enough, us women will stop." Buri's evil grin gave me chills.
The men returned puffing in their haste to find something. They wordlessly held out a pair of breeches and a tunic, and something else…
"OMG!" Everyone visibly flinched from my screech. "Where did you find this?"
They were holding a black leather Gucci, the kind that holds just about EVERYTHING a girl could ever need when she goes out. And not only that, but it was MY Gucci. The one that I left in my room after the party…?
"Errr, Wolset just said one of the men from New Hope had it with him and they didn't know what it was, so he reckoned it might have belonged to you." Raoul answered me, rubbing his ear.
"It's my handbag! OMGOSH! I can't believe it." True too. How did it get here? Then it hit me. When I reefed open my doorhandle and tried to run out, I'd tripped over something, could it have been my handbag? Maybe I pulled it through the portal with me. I couldn't remember where I'd dropped it when I got home. I began hauling stuff everywhere, tossing my digital camera, mobile, Tamora Pierce books, spare clothes… wait! Tamora pierce books? I scrambled for the paperbacks, quickly hiding them from view. Buri, Kel, Alanna and Daine were too busy looking at my skirt and strappy bra with what-the-! expressions to notice and Numair was testing the camera with his gift, jumping when he pressed a button and the lens popped out.
Very carefully, I checked the covers of the books. A fiery red head clutching what looked like a living ember around her neck. Four books in one. Alanna's whole story up until her engagement to George. The next was a close up of a young woman's face, with luxurious brown curls falling in a mane around her face along with its sequel. Emperor Mage and The Realm of the Gods. Finally, a blank faced girl holding a baby griffin in her scarred hands stared at me from the covers. Squire. I suddenly remembered that Lady Knight was on my bedside table at home. Beneath that was Trickster's Queen.
"Whatcha looking at now, Angela?" Buri's curious voice asked me.
Panic surged through my veins, I couldn't let her see them, she'd tell the others that I actually had a copy of these books that the supposed Goddess Tamora had written. Besides, if I was in Lady Knight, then Daine wasn't married and giving birth to Sarra, Aly was still in Tortall, and, and, well all this stuff hadn't happened yet! For all I knew, Dove and her family could be happy in the Copper Isles with their mother! That trickster's queen book could be deadly stuff indeed.
"Nothing Buri, say where did my camera go? I can take a picture of all of us!"
Ultimate distraction. Pics. "Oh, Numair has it! Wait don't do that! Oh sh*t you almost deleted my entire year's supply of photos! That's it. U-no touchie da camera, kapeash?" (A/N I can normally spell ok, but if something turns up weird, just sound it out. I spell things how they sound) "Alright, no kapeash. Just don't touch it, or you might damage the memory chip with all my pics on it. You know what, never mind."
What a bunch of SNU'S. Jks, guys jks. I think someone has mind reading capabilities around here. They just gave me dirty looks. Or maybe they can just read my face. Yamani I am not.
*2 Hours and lots of running later*
"Puff Puff Puff" Man, was I buggered. I had successfully annoyed Alanna (again) and she had threatened to lock me back up, but Buri came to my rescue and assigned me an escort around the fort. I managed to slip Peachblossom an apple while Wolset stood way back with a young blonde man who I had figured out to be the new Queen's riders commander, Evin Larse. I have always been curious about him, as Tamora never mentions him except when he's in trouble about something, such as almost dying for kissing Daine. So you could say that I wanted to know if his lady was Miri Fisher (A/N as most fanfic authors write about them being together) or if he was still going after the engaged noblewomen. So I slipped on my most flirtatious smile which I reckon was a complete disaster, but anyways. I proceeded to poke and prod at his love life. Let's just say, he's not going to be taking me to the wedding, oh and I hope that Miri likes Evin, and doesn't already have an escort, because I think I made him mad enough that he is currently on his way to ask her instead. Either way, he chased me until I ducked through the stable and hid behind Peachblossom, who bit him. I knew I was being smart when I gave him that apple. I said as much, too.
"Tobe says to tell you that Peachblossom only ignored you because he saw Larse coming and he thought he might squeal as loud as I do, but since he didn't I think you might want to move."
I jumped out and found Neal, who was eying Peachblossom with disdain.
"What are you doing here?" I had to ask, no one had seen Neal since he ran off with Yuki after my poetry recital. We had all expected to not see him until tomorrow.
"I could ask you the same thing, being chased into asylum by Larse. What did you do to make him so angry?"
So I told Neal and he laughed. Laughed! I figured that after my performance this morning, he would hate me. I mean, everybody else in the place didn't exactly like me. I don't know why, what with my sparkling friendly personality and all. Yerrrrr right. I knew exactly what was the problem. Meh. I was having too much fun to care. Suddenly my stomach rumbled noisily.
Neal sighed. "I guess since you lost your escort I had better take you to the mess then."
"Hey! Not my fault they ditched me!"
"No you just hid behind a crazy horse after picking on the commander of the Queens Riders. Not your fault at all."
Sarcasm much? By now we were walking across the yard of the fort and I could hear someone calling for Kel somewhere behind me. I ignored them and kept listening to Neal. They would run past us in a second to get to her. The voice was really loud and I could see Neal was starting to recognise it. But I couldn't see Kel anywhere…
"Kel! There you are! Why didn't you stop, surely Meathead's not that interesting!" An arm grabbed me and whipped me around to face the speaker. Before I could make sense of what was happening, my eyes were drawn straight into the sapphire pools that Kel was so in love with…
Ohhh! I wonder who THAT could be? :P Angela getting mistaken for Kel? I don't think that's gonna go over well at all! Feel free to send me a message with ideas, comments, flames, watever!
Love you now, and forever, BMX Princess 3
